What the McWrap Says About America

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You could easily make it at home without a recipe in about five minutes, varying it with whatever hasn’t rotted at the bottom of the veggie drawer. At McDonald’s, it took almost two years to perfect.

You damn well that somebody outed Spitzer's private pleasures. And I would bet it was Wall St folk if not Joe Bruno!! I hope Spitzer gets the job and kicks the crap out of Jamie Dimon that offensive slimebag.

On the last part of my on-air comment, I was given the info about the Irish definition of starving to death on the other person's property as "murder" when the N.Y. Times was calling the prisoners' deaths "suicide" & the prisoners' supporters were calling it "murder." I thought the Times should have taken the objective path & said they died while on hunger strike.

On Monday, a leaked internal memo showed that McDonald’s believes it would lose 22 percent of its 18-34 year old customers to what’s perceived as the healthier option, sandwich chain Subway, without adding the wrap onto its menu. McDonald’s is also looking to alter its unhealthy image with its green label. Just last week, researchers at Cornell University released a study showing that consumers view green labeling as a shorthand for healthier food:

People tend to think a candy bar with a green calorie label is healthier than ones with red or white labels, even when the number of calories is the same, a Cornell University researcher found.[...]

“Our research suggests that the color of calorie labels may have an effect on whether people perceive the food as healthy, over and above the actual nutritional information conveyed by the label, such as calorie content,” [a Cornell news release] said. [...]

Exactly right, nothing wrong with eating at McDonald's just not everyday, twice a day! Treat yourself once in a while to a tasty McDonald's burger with fries. And I don't think children don't understand if you teach them why to eat healthy most of the time and once in a while enjoying a tasty, not so healthy meal! Enjoy!

I'm a vegetarian and I've ordered salads from McD's. This mainly happens on road trips with my meat-eating friends. It's not ideal and I wouldn't choose to go there on my own, but if salads weren't offered, I'd push my friends to go somewhere else.

I was forced to eat at McDonalds last week because it was the closest place to eat after 4 hours visiting at a hospital. I have not been in one since my children were young, maybe 15 years ago. I happend to select the chicken wrap (420 cal) and I must say it was not bad!!! Being very hungry probably helped and it was quick.

I'm a GenXer not a millennial but anyone who's been to both Chipotle and McDonalds would know that Chipotle's food is FAR superior to McDonalds. Humanely raised, antibiotic free meats, significant commitment to integrating organic foods and most importantly, delicious! You can taste the difference! It's not about wraps or not wraps, it's about quality!

I'm a filmmaker who is on the road with the crew often. We often find ourselves at places like McDonald's while driving around America and as a 26 year vegetarian who eats healthy, I often go hungry or at best have a very limited option. I don't "go" to McDonald's ever by choice, but find myself there. I welcome the McWrap (I'm GenX).

So, it seems I'm the ONLY person that gets salads at mcdonalds! Sometimes when I'm in a rush it's a quick and relatively healthy option. I also used to buy these fruit walnut and yogurt salad things they had...until it was discontinued. The worker told me nobody wants that kind of stuff! lame.

I have worked in some food wastelands in this city where McDonald's is one of the few places you CAN get a salad. Thank God for the Southwest Chicken Salad or some weeks I might never have seen lettuce! It's not the healthiest, but it's better than nothing. We're talking about young people driving the market... why aren't we talking about trying to make people in food wasteland communities buy more salads?

McDonalds tended to have a direction it lead you, not entirely a good one. For a long while I would always buy one salad, no drink, pay the same price, about $5.30. Then one day I bought 1 McChicken, 2 of Carolita's snackwraps and a hamburger, 4 things, it was exactly the same price! Having to buy only on a price basis does cost you on health.

I remember that years ago they introduced a sort of mini-wrap. It was actually relatively healthy at the time. It was just grilled chicken with some salad, and it was small. There were two sauces, one that was less gross than the other, and I always opted for the healthier one. It made a great snack, and they were cheap, and I'd often buy two if I needed to make a meal of them. I hadn't been into a McDonalds unelss it were for an emergency coffee or the occasional ice cream sundae of a summer for years. People loved them. I remember people talking about them, about how addictive they were. Then they introduced a sort of chicken mcnugget style wrap, the "crispy" chicken one, where the chicken was breaded and fried. That was significantly less healthy. Then, they got bigger and turned into these McWraps, and the little ones disappeared. And all I could think was, what is this? Some kind of conspiracy to make people eat more, or what?This new McWrap, which is 10 inches long and has that awful processed cheese in it, and is served with ranch dressing, and probably mostly sold as "crispy," is so not healthy. It's fake healthy food.

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